Steel, Steel, Steel, So Much Fun

Although the equippable traits compared to his first simulation were completely on a different level, for Chen Yi, there were also more and more useful traits available.

He still felt that the trait slots were not enough.

For instance, the recently replaced Man and Sword as One, Treasure-Sniffing Nose, and Playing the Pig to Eat the Tiger were all useful.

Unfortunately, with limited slots, he had to make choices.

"I hope this simulation can yield a stable method to break through to the Martial King realm. Breaking through to the Martial King realm means advancing from the middle stage to the late stage of martial arts, which will increase the equippable trait slots by three in one go!"

[At this moment, you are flying over the Great Wilderness.]

[The Great Wilderness is extremely vast. Traces of human activity are basically invisible. Demons can be seen frequently, but generally, it is a vast land with sparse demons.]

[Moreover, demons have a strong sense of territory, especially the demons of the Great Wilderness.]

[There are solitary demons and those that live in groups. Within their respective territories, under normal circumstances, they absolutely do not allow other demons to set foot.]

[Comparing it with the Topographical Map of the Human Realm given to you by the Sword Master, you fly in a straight line toward the direction of the Holy Land.]

[After equipping the Heartsteel trait, you could not wait to test it out.]

[At first, you used what was at hand, releasing the Myriad Soul Banner to have a passionate PK with it.]

[To make the Myriad Soul Banner fit the trait's definition of an enemy, you let the Myriad Soul Banner attack you to its heart's content.]

[As soon as the Myriad Soul Banner heard it could beat you up, the entire banner instantly stood erect.]

["Bro! We are brothers, how could I hurt you!"]

["Then let the Demon Refining Pot do it..."]

["But to facilitate your testing of the new cultivation method, I am duty-bound! What the hell does the Demon Refining Pot know!"]

[Unfortunately, after some testing, you found that no matter how the Myriad Soul Banner attacked you, even causing some substantial damage, you did not feel Heartsteel taking effect.]

[The Myriad Soul Banner, however, thoroughly enjoyed beating you up.]

["This is the feeling! Hiss! Haa!"]

[Then, you pulled the Myriad Soul Banner out of your spiritual artifacts and brutally beat it for two hours.]

[You understood.]

[The trait does not allow you to deliberately create enemies for yourself; stacking Heartsteel in advance through this method is not permitted.]

[Subsequently, you landed on the ground and came before a demon.]

[This demon was extremely stubborn.]

["Where did this human come from? Tired of living, daring to trespass on my territory??"]

[He spoke in the demon language.]

[But you learned the demon language in your last simulation and have already mastered it.]

[When this demon entered a one-hundred-meter radius around you.]

["Ding!"]

[You heard the crisp sound of forging iron.]

["Ding!"]

["Ding!"]

[It dinged once per second. Three seconds later, you saw a red spherical mark appear above the demon's head.]

["Human! What are you glaring at me for! Do you want to fight me? Do you think I would be afraid of you?!"]

[You smiled disdainfully.]

[I am waiting for Heartsteel to finish marking; what are you waiting for?]

[You rushed up and threw an unpretentious punch, smashing it into this guy.]

["Clang!!"]

[This was the unique attack sound effect of a successful Heartsteel stack.]

[Heartsteel, one stack!]

[With a hundred times the destructive power of a basic attack, plus double the strength of your right arm, this pitiful Soul Tempering Realm demon test subject was instantly smashed into a bloody mist!]

["Too strong! Just this basic attack enhancement is already incredible, not to mention it can heal injuries and stack combat power and body size!"]

Outside the simulation, Chen Yi was dying of envy.

What an ultimate weapon for team fights and wars of attrition!

If injured, you can recover; the longer you fight, the higher your combat power becomes, and the larger your body grows!

By the end of the fight, it would just be high damage with the left fist and massive damage with the right fist!

Who cares about martial arts or spiritual artifacts!

Imagine a towering giant, using fists the size of mountains, smashing here and pounding there!

How could the enemy even fight back!

"Right now, I do not see how the Dragonman race can possibly win."

Chen Yi did a tactical lean back, his self-confidence bursting.

[You found a group of demons living together in the Great Wilderness and played Heartsteel with them for several days.]

[To make it easier to stack Heartsteel, you pulled your punches every time, ensuring you did not kill them.]

[When you reached the current maximum of one thousand stacks, your height had already surpassed twenty meters!]

[Your clothes were completely shredded, your wild hair danced in the wind, and your bronze skin was brimming with a sense of power!]

[With a single punch, the wind and clouds changed color, the earth shook and the mountains swayed, peaks crumbled, and rivers flowed backward!]

[The demons covering the mountains and plains were crying out for their daddies!]

["Heartsteel is still the most fun, haha!"]

[You stopped in time, left the combat, and continued flying deeper into the Great Wilderness.]

[If you kept messing around here, you would probably attract a Demon Ancestor.]

[Even with a thousand stacks of Heartsteel, singling out a Demon Ancestor would still be overestimating your own abilities.]

[The gap between realms cannot be simply measured by combat power.]

[For example, the Martial King Realm versus the Spirit Condensation Realm.]

[If you gave a Spirit Condensation Realm martial artist a massive boost in combat power, could he single out a Martial King?]

[Obviously not, unless that Martial King was an idiot.]

[As long as the Martial King stays in the air and does not come down, the Spirit Condensation Realm martial artist cannot do anything to him.]

[Over the past few days while you were practicing Heartsteel, the whole family inside your body had plenty of comments.]

[Myriad Soul Banner: "Where did you get this crooked and evil path from?! Is it this outrageous?! You are only twenty-two? This is fucking twenty-two???"]

[Demon Refining Pot: "Oh my!! Congratulations, Master! Felicitations, Master! Your divine skill is complete! Master, when will you become the number one in the Human Realm?"]

[Qiankun Mirror: "Brother is fierce indeed. Little Brother Ding, you have great foresight! I see this kid has the bearing of a Human Emperor! I am not leaving."]

[Jiuzhou Cauldron: "Brother Kun, eat a peach."]

[Hu Chacha inside the Myriad Soul Banner: "Ahxita!!! What is the situation with this person?! Why has he gotten stronger again!! How can the human race have such a freak?!"]

[Feng Yucheng inside the Myriad Soul Banner: "Did I actually die at the hands of such a mighty figure? Me?"]

[The fish demon inside the Myriad Soul Banner: "Plus one."]

[This bellyful of spiritual bodies and souls of yours is simply too lively.]

[It looks like you are adventuring alone, but in reality, you are dragging a whole family along.]

[As you left combat, the Heartsteel stacks began to gradually drop, and your body size slowly returned to normal.]

[Your journey in the Great Wilderness is still ongoing.]

[With the Traffic Light trait, you avoided a lot of danger.]

[You figured that the areas indicating danger should all be places where Demon Ancestors are active.]

[With your current combat power, only a Demon Ancestor can threaten you.]

[The vision ahead turned red.]

["Is there danger? Heh, minor issue. A wise man knows when to retreat; I will take a detour."]

[You were supposed to fly from west to east, but since the east was a patch of red, you detoured to the south.]

[After flying for over a hundred miles, the east was still red.]

["Heh, minor issue. I will keep detouring."]

[A few days later.]

["Damn it?! What exactly is ahead, why is it still red?!"]

[You took out the Topographical Map of the Human Realm given by the Sword Master and repeatedly compared the terrain and approximate location.]

["A forbidden land?"]

[On this longitude where the red vision was located—assuming the Human Realm had lines of longitude and latitude.]

[There is a place known as the Great Desolate Forbidden Zone.]

[What you find strange is that you have already taken a detour to avoid encountering the forbidden zone head-on. So why is it still showing red?]